Lessons from field day in Tanzania

by Jean Claude Rubyogo | Sep 29, 2017

More than 300 farmers, companies, extension agents and media attended a field day at the Agriculture Seed Agency (ASA) seed farm at Ngaramtoni in Arusha, Tanzania, to raise awareness among smallholder farmer about the value of planting improved bean varieties....

Climate-smart village: What it is – and isn’t

by Maria Eliza Villarino | Sep 13, 2017

A forthcoming paper describes the experience of CCAFS* and its partners to establish climate-smart villages across five regions around the globe. We spoke with Ana Maria Loboguerrero Rodriguez, CCAFS Regional Program Leader for Latin America and one of the paper’s...

Boosting African agribusiness with a new generation of cooperatives

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Jun 23, 2017

For the International Day of Cooperatives to be celebrated on 1 July, the Linking Farmers to Markets team of CIAT and the Enhancing Development through Cooperatives (EDC) initiative of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) just published a...

New collaboration with AAIN to grow agri-business in Africa

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jun 15, 2017

This week, African Agribusiness Incubation Network (AAIN) Chief Executive Officer Dr. Alex Ariho, and Human and Institutional, Capacity Development Officer Dr. James Aucha, visited CIAT in Nairobi to sign a Memorandum of Understanding and discuss collaboration between...

Living soils and some surprising results

by Job Kihara | Jun 14, 2017

By Job Kihara, Peter Bolo, Michael Kinyua, John Mukalama, Rolf Sommer, and Andrew Margenot.   “Where farmyard manure has been added, there is living soil. But the soil is dead where there is only mineral fertilizer application”. This statement by Erest Omulama, a...

Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition

by Georgina Smith | May 29, 2017

Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Power a Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) for Africa Since at least the 1970s, food crises have seemed to strike sub-Saharan Africa with depressing frequency They often require...